The Associated Press
IRVINGTON, New Jersey
A gunman shot a driver stopped at a traffic light and killed a pedestrian early Sunday, and the same man may be responsible for the shooting of a police sergeant in his patrol car, authorities said.
The three shootings took place within minutes in the same general area of Irvington, in northern New Jersey, around 3 a.m. Sunday, said Paul Loriquet, Essex County prosecutor's office spokesman.
Police later accused Shaquan Johnson, 27, of Newark of shooting the police officer, and authorities were investigating his possible involvement in the other two shootings.
The gunman first drove up to a vehicle stopped at a traffic light, according to a police news release. He spoke with the driver, a 23-year-old man from Bridgeport, Connecticut, before shooting him several times.
The gunman continued driving and shot to death Gary Farrar Jr., 22, a Rutgers University student walking on a sidewalk, police said.
A man then passed an Irvington police patrol car, backed up and told the sergeant inside, a 24-year police veteran, that a shooting had just taken place, police said. He then drew his gun and shot the sergeant.
The Connecticut man drove himself to a hospital in Newark, and an ambulance took the sergeant to a hospital. The sergeant was treated and released.
Law enforcers stopped a sport utility vehicle that Johnson was driving at about 9:30 a.m. The vehicle was similar to the one witnesses saw leaving the scene of the officer's shooting, Loriquet said.
Johnson was initially was arrested on drug possession charges but later charged with aggravated assault on a police officer, two weapons offenses and possession of hollow point bullets.
He was being held Sunday night in jail on $500,000 (euro316,857) bail. Loriquet did not know whether Johnson had a lawyer.
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Suspect arrested in N.J. officer shooting
The Associated Press
IRVINGTON, N.J. — Authorities were trying to determine yesterday whether a man accused of shooting a police sergeant in his patrol car also was responsible for two other overnight shootings that left a pedestrian dead and another driver wounded.
The arrest of Shaquan Johnson, 27, of Newark, came after police stopped a light-colored sport utility vehicle he was driving at about 9:30 a.m. The vehicle was similar to the one witnesses saw leaving the scene of the officer's shooting in Irvington and had the same partial plate they described, said Paul Loriquet, a spokesman for the Essex County Prosecutor's Office.
Johnson initially was arrested on drug possession charges, but after further investigation he was charged with aggravated assault on a police officer. He was being held last night in the county jail on $500,000 bail.
However, Loriquet said it was not yet known if Johnson was involved in the fatal shooting of Gary Farrar Jr., 22, a Rutgers student killed as he walked along 18th Avenue in Irvington, or the wounding of a driver stopped at a traffic light.
The three shootings took place within minutes in the same general area of the township about 3 a.m. yesterday Loriquet said.
A gunman first drove up to a vehicle stopped at a traffic light and spoke with the driver, a 23-year-old man from Bridgeport, Conn., before shooting him several times. The gunman continued driving and shot Farrar a short time later.
The gunman then passed the Irvington police patrol car, backed up and told the sergeant inside, a 24-year police veteran, that a shooting had just taken place, police said. He then drew his gun and shot the sergeant, who was struck in the hip.
A motive for the shootings has not been determined.
The Connecticut man drove himself to a hospital in Newark, and an ambulance took the sergeant to a hospital. The sergeant was treated and released; the Connecticut man was expected to fully recover.
On Friday night, Five people were shot and three others stabbed in four incidents in Irvington.
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